On 12 September, Norway elects a new Storting (Parliament). Kristin Halvorsen, the president of the Socialist Left Party SV began her electoral campaign last week with a five-day visit to India and Pakistan. Immigrants make up 3.6% of the Norwegian electorate in the general elections. In Oslo, however, this figure is 12%. For the municipal elections, where everybody who has lived in Norway for three years is entitled to vote, the Oslo figure is 18%. A large part of the Norwegian immigrant population is of Pakistani origin. Most of the Norwegian Pakistanis come from the region of Kharian, a Punjabi town that is sometimes referred to locally as “Little Norway” because so many families have relatives in Norway. Halvorsen hopes that campaigning in Kharian during the holiday season will help her win votes in Norway next month.

Oslo's Lindeberg School will cooperate with two schools in Pakistan next year to help bring Norwegian classes to hundreds of Norwegian-Pakistani children living in Kharian. Halvorsen is just back from a two-week study trip to Pakistan with two colleagues and the dean of teacher education at Oslo University College. In 2005 they will develop a plan for the organization of Norwegian education in Pakistan.

The most famous Norwegian of Pakistani background is incidentally a very Westernized woman, humorist Shabana Rehman. She is known, among other things, for pulling a stunt where she lifted up Mullah Krekar, the controversial former leader of the militant group Ansar al-Islam, who has lived on welfare in Oslo for years. She later declared that she was no longer a stand-up comedienne, but a lift-up comedienne. However, politician Per Sandberg from the Progress Party claims to have received information about possibly tens of thousand of Pakistanis in Norway involved in a network aimed at creating instability within the country. Local Pakistanis also invited the extremist politician Qazi Hussain Ahmed, who has earlier praised Osama bin Laden and been a close backer of the Taliban, to Norway. He was allowed to visit and meet some of our senior Cabinet ministers:Pakistani politician makes the rounds

Qazi Hussain Ahmed, leader of Pakistan's largest religious party and a member of parliament, arrived in Norway over the weekend after government minister Erna Solberg allowed his visit. Both Belgium and the Netherlands blocked his entry earlier this year, calling him a threat to national security. He refused, however, to discuss human rights with the head of Amnesty International in Norway. "I especially wanted to take up the position of women, who often live under difficult conditions and are subjected to violence," said Petter Eide of Amnesty International. "He didn't want to listen." Eide said Ahmed interpreted a discussion of human rights in Pakistan as "an attack on Islam."

A member of Oslo's City Council who was born in Pakistan but now holds Norwegian citizenship has twice been called to Pakistan's local embassy. Both times, Pakistan's ambassador to Norway questioned her political standpoints, and now Norway's foreign minister Jan Petersen has been told that she felt pressured. The calls from Pakistan's embassy came after Munir became the first known Muslim woman in Norway to support a proposed ban on the use of head scarves and other religious symbols for youth. She then became a target of criticism within the local Pakistani community. She declined to comment on the issue after receiving several anonymous and bothersome phone calls. Newspaper Aftenposten Aften understands that Pakistan's ambassador, Shahbaz Shahbaz, noted in his second meeting with Munir that she still has family in Pakistan.

Pakistanis in Oslo attacked a man because of what they deemed to be an offensive newspaper article:

As many as 15 Pakistani-Norwegian teenagers attacked a 31-year-old man outside his flat Monday night. They thought he was a journalist who'd written a provocative guide about how to have sex with young Muslim women.

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What a depressing collection of articles. Norway is democratic though, so if the "left" wins the election, what can you do? I wish Norway would wake up and stop allowing Muslim immigration. It's going to destroy your culture. They're only 4% at the moment, so it's still not too late. Good luck!

I have no objection to people making a free choice to marry whomsoever, but isn't it likely that this female was making a political statement of hostility towards Norwegian culture and her race, a statement in line with the doctrines of the thought police?

In India we have a jokeIndians are good at IT (Information Technology)Pakistanis are also good at IT (International Terrorism)

Here is an SMS message floating around in India (The acronyms are for universities or public exams in India)If we were in Pakistan our options in education would be - IIT (Islamic Institute of Terrorism), JEE (Jehadic Entrance Exam), IIM (Institute of Infiltration Management), CAT (Career in Al Qaida and Taliban), IAS (Iraq after Saddam), MTech (Master in Terror Technology), GATE (General Aptitude in Terror and Extremism).

I think that you guys should just shut down all immigration. Japan did implement such a policy where they got fed up of the outside world and shut down all travel/movement of people in/out of Japan for several centuries.

simulev -- But the Jews seem to be tougher than the Europeans, more willing to stand up against the enemies within and without. I think they'll still be in business after the Star and Crescent banner is flying over Oslo and Amsterdam.

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